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Modanizumu : modernist fiction from Japan, 1913-1938 / compiled and edited, with introductions and commentary, by William J. Tyler.
- Title
- Modanizumu : modernist fiction from Japan, 1913-1938 / compiled and edited, with introductions and commentary, by William J. Tyler.
- Publication
- Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, c2008.
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- Additional Authors
- Tyler, William Jefferson
- Description
- xii, 605 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "This volume presents in translation for the first time a collection of twenty-five stories and novellas representative of Japanese authors who worked in the modernist idiom from 1913 to 1938. Its prefatory materials provide a systematic overview of the literary movement's salient features - anti-naturalism, cosmopolitanism, the concept of the double self, and actionism - and describe how 'modanizumu' evolved from its early "jagged edges" into a sophisticated yet popular expression of Japanese urban life in the first half of the twentieth century. The 'modanist' style, characterized by youthful exuberance, a tongue-in-cheek tone, and narrative techniques like superimposition, is illustrated."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Project Muse UPCC books
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- Translations
- Translations.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 583-588) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Anti-naturalism: illuminating the spectacle. "The bust of the beautiful young Salaino" / Murayama Kaita ; "A shop that sells stars" / Inagaki Taruho ; "Shoes fit for a poet" / Osaki Midori ; Page of madness / Kawabata Yasunari ; Streets of fiendish ghosts / Itô Sei -- Cosmopolitarism and popularization: foreign settings, exotic personae, and the bilingual gloss. A tale of trouble from the Bar Roulette / Tchibana Sotoo ; "The Japan-Germany track competition" / Abe Tomoji ; "A negro in cinema" / Abe Tomoji ; "The two-sen copper coin" / Edogawa Ranpo ; "The Shanghaied man" / Tani Jōji ; "Love after death" / Yumeno Kyūsaku -- Modanizumu as the multiple self: dopplegängers, alter egos, and nonessentialism. "The lemon" / Kajii Motojirō ; "The ascension of K" / Kajii Motojirō ; "Feelings atop a cliff" / Kajii Motojirō ; "The story of R-chan and S" / Inagaki Taruho ; "The man traveling with the brocade portrait" / Edogawa Ranpo -- Modanizumu in politics: diving into actionism. "The caterpillar" / Edogawa Ranpo ; "The censor" / Tanizaki Jun'ichirō ; "Colorful Shinjuku" / Yoshiyuki Eisuke ; "The love of Kishimo" / Okamoto Kanoko ; "Japan's three-penny opera" / Takeda Rintarō ; "Kamagasaki" / Takeda Rintarō ; Diving / Funahashi Seiichi ; "The town of cats" / Hagiwara Sakutarō ; "Mars' song" / Ishikawa Jun.
- ISBN
- 9780824832421 (alk. paper)
- 0824832426 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2007036745
- OCLC
- 171613788
- SCSB-11404759
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library